[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Mac OS X

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/7/05, Nathan Brazil <nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In any case, I've played around language support only a little bit,
> and the results thus far aren't promising.
> 
> For instance, if I manually invoke the game client after setting the
> LANG environment variable to de, a few elements would change, most of
> the game remains in English.  In fact, whenever I try to run
> civclient with the LANG environment variable set to some value, I get
> the following warning message:
> 
> (civclient:672): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>          Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> 
> To be honest, I am not sure why it is not working.  My packages are
> built with the --with-included-gettext and --disable-nls flags.  Do
> these settings affect localization any?

Heh heh.  --with-included-gettext isn't recommended, and --disable-nls
will disable translation entirely.  You need --enable-nls.

If that still doesn't work, check if you can get other applications to
work in the language.  Running in a different language requires more
than just setting $LANG; you also have to configure your system to
support that language.  On my debian/linux system I have to run
"dpkg-reconfigure locales" and choose which locales I want to enable.

Also note that many strings are provided by GTK not by freeciv.  GTK
of course does its own translation of these texts (and some pictures
too) based on your $LANG.  The important point here is it's possible
to get GTK texts to be translated even if freeciv translations don't
work.

-jason